REPERTOIRE WORKSHOP
Greywax Dance Company
17.10.25, 15:00–19:00
18.10.25, 13:00–17:00
Level: Dancers/ Advanced
160€ / 130€ marameo members
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This workshop is led by the founders of Greywax Dance Company and includes material from the company’s repertoire.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore the unique movement language of Greywax Dance and gain deeper insight into the repertoire from the company’s recent creations. Through creative tasks drawn from Greywax’s own creation process, the workshop offers a hands-on experience of how new movement material is developed. The session also includes work with voice and text, as well as partnering elements that foster trust, physical listening, and shared exploration in space.
About Greywax Dance Company
The Greywax Dance Company is a dance and theatre ensemble based in Bern, Switzerland, founded in 2022 by Victor Rottier, Niki Anjes Stalder, and Melissa Kieffer. Driven by a shared passion for movement and dance theatre, the company is dedicated to creating works that reflect the diversity of human experience. With their varied backgrounds, the founders bring fresh perspectives and dynamic energy to their creations. In 2023, the company celebrated its stage debut in Bern with its first full-length production, «greywax 140», which was also performed in 2024 at Theater am Gleis in Winterthur and at the B12 Festival in Berlin. This was followed by the productions «Grain of Thought» (2024) and «Echoes of Applause» (2024), both produced and performed in Bern. In addition to its artistic work, Greywax is also strongly engaged in dance outreach and education. The company offers professional workshops for dancers and students of BA dance programs across Europe.
Bios
Victor Rottier is a dancer, choreographer, and director with a background in contemporary dance. Over the years, he has collaborated with a variety of companies as both a performer and choreographer, developing his own work while engaging in close creative partnerships with others. As a co-founder of the Greywax Dance Company, Victor has helped shape the artistic direction of the ensemble, choreographing pieces such as greywax 140 and Echoes of Applause, which premiered in October 2024. In recent months, Victor has premiered several new works, including Grain of Thought, performed together with Angela Demattè at the Laboratoire Suisse de la Danse in Bern, as well as a piece created for the University of Utah, which he directed in collaboration with Laja Field in Los Angeles. He was a full-time ensemble dancer at Staatstheater Kassel for four years, and later worked as rehearsal director alongside Johannes Wieland until 2021. Since then, he has focused on freelance work, teaching workshops at international festivals and developing projects with dance institutions across Europe and the United States. He is currently also serving as rehearsal director at Luzerner Theater for the 2024–2025 season.
Niki Anjes Stalder (alias Grave), an artist from Bern, works as a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher. She trained in Switzerland and France and completed her dance studies at the HF ZUB in Zurich. She has attended international workshops in contemporary dance, improvisation and Krump. She undertook internships with Thierry Verger, at Cirque Monti and at the Scottish Dance Theatre. She has danced for various dance companies in Switzerland and abroad and is a co-founder of the Greywax Dance Company and a permanent dancer with the Company premier trait in France. Since 2024, she has been a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts and at the HF/BA ZUB in Zurich. In 2023, she founded the Krump company Zaidi, with which she creates her own pieces. She has performed her short piece «Le Temps Qui Court» at various festivals in Switzerland and at the Frei Art Festival in Germany. In February 2024, she celebrated the premiere of her own production, the krump piece «Comfortable Me», at the Schlachthaus Theatre in Bern. She also choreographs for various dance and theatre productions and teaches at a range of community and dance schools. Niki was selected for DoubleDance 2023, received the Off-Stage Grant 2024 and was nominated for the Swiss Uprise Dance Award 2025 and the Premio Emerging Artist Award 2026. In 2025, she was awarded a Pro Helvetia UK residency grant in Manchester and she won the studio grant 2028 in London. As a krumper, she is dedicated to teaching the style, actively takes part in national and international battles, and is a member of the Fam/Crew Mubulu Tha Missunderstood (Lausanne). Her latest creation «Pointless» with Cie Zaidi will premiere in September 2026 as the season opener at the Tojo Theater Reitschule in Bern.
Melissa Kieffer works internationally as a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator, with a focus in Berlin and Switzerland. In 2018, she completed her Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance at La Manufacture – University of Performing Arts in Lausanne. After her studies, she performed in productions by choreographers such as Johannes Wieland, Sebastian Zuber, Fleur Darkin (Scottish Dance Theatre), Tamara Gvozdenovic, Michael Schumacher, and Breeanne Saxton. Since the 2022/23 season, she has been working regularly with Sasha Waltz & Guests, Mirjam Gurtner, and Victor Rottier. She is a founding member of the Greywax Dance Company. As a dance educator, Melissa teaches contemporary dance at a variety of institutions, working with children, teenagers, non-professional movers, and professional dancers alike. She continuously refines her practice and approach through further training in dance, choreography, and somatic as well as therapeutic methods.
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